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Prof Ken Mufuka's very thorough analysis of the Zim crisis!

“................................The atrocities in Matabeleland started in 1981 and ended 1988. Only the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace raised the issue publicly.

My thesis in this paper is that these extra-judicial activities consumed the greater part of the Zimbabwean Government until 1998 to the exclusion of Economic Planning...............................................”

A certain Albert in Alberton, JHB phoned “Radio 702” (which I listen to for most of the day) this morning (22 April, 2008) and said he had been speaking to his mum over the phone (she’s in Bulawayo) and she said its getting very, very rough.

The CIO planted some weapons between certain townships and are beating people saying the MDC had hidden them for use. He says its completely stupid because there are no more forests anywhere between townships - or anywhere else even (where anyone can hide anything.)

The CIO are also spreading junk that the ship that was seen at Durban (which had arms) ....the arms were actually meant for the MDC!

This smells of the very persecution that Dr Nkomo suffered in the 80s. Arms were planted by Mugabe's CIO and the rest is History.

PRELIMINARY REMARKS: It is very vital that the whole world should know that ZANU-PF has always had two faces. There is the face that is shown to the world and the face that the common man on the ground sees and brushes and inter-acts with.

We who have been part of ZANU-PF for all our adult lives can testify that ZANU-PF is a very dangerous organisation indeed. I will try to follow the bumpy journey that we have had with Mugabe and ZANU-PF since before the Independence of 1980.

It must be emphasized that Mugabe and ZANU-PF have always existed as some sort of under-dog. That is the underline that must never be ommitted.

CONGRATS POUR IN FOR PRES TSVANGIRAI AND THE MDC!

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SENIOR SOLDIER ADDRESSES THE NATION: ITS ALL OVER!!!

Tsvangirai is ahead of Matibili (RGM) by 177980 votes!

The dilemma that Robert Mugabe is currently facing as an individual and ZANU (PF) as a party, is how to secure a re-run of the Presidential Elections without the election results being announced first!

Announcing the results, as they are, really amounts to conceding defeat thereby declaring Morgan Tsvangirai the New President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

The facts and figures, based on the Parliamentary results, are as follows: Total number of votes cast - 2 405 147If Morgan Tsvangirai got - 50,3% and his rival Robert Mugabe - 42,9%, what it means is that either Tsvangirai has to lose the 0,3% or Mugabe has to gain 7,1% of the total votes in order for there to be a re-run of the presidential elections.

The easier of the above options is to ensure that somehow Morgan Tsvangirai has to lose the 0,3% of the votes which translates to 722 votes. The question that then arises is how that can be successfully accomplished in view of the fact that all results from each polling station have been published. How many changes would ZEC have to make in order to reduce Morgan Tsvangirai's votes by the 722 votes.

Imagine the number of polling station results that need to be tempered with to deprive Morgan of the crucial number of votes. In conclusion; ZANU (PF) is now calling for a recount, not because they believe they got less votes that they should have obtained, but simply in order to manipulate the results so as to ensure that Tsvangirai loses the contentious 722 votes thereby securing a run-off and ultimately a re-run of the elections.

I do not envy ZEC staff as they are under immense pressure to achieve the impossible.

1) Who under the above circumstances can proclaim that ZANU (PF) does not know the results of the elections?

2) Who can deny the fact that Morgan Tsvangirai has won the elections and should be declared PRESIDENT!

I hope the visitors to "Zimfinalpush" join Rev Mufaro Stig Hove in congratulating His Excellency, Mr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai on a deserved victory! We salute all the activists, journalists, bloggers; all public and private supporters and all "friends of Zimbabwe" who stood by the Democrats during these last very calamitous times.

We regret that various heroes like the late gallant Learnmore Jongwe are not physically among us to witness the return of Zimbabwe to a Democracy!

Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has finally arrived where he did arrive as early as 2000. Everyone (including President Thabo Mbeki) knows that the MDC should have got into power in 2000. Robert Gabriel Mugabe became illegitimate in 2000.

URGENT: WORLD MUST RAISE ALARMS BELLS FOR ZIMBABWE!!

Good morning Mr Hove.

Please be our Moses by asking President Mbeki and President Tsvangirai NEVER, EVER to accept an extension of the Election re-run date because I predict that:

1. The final looting and destruction of the Resources and the Economy has been planned for the expected 90 days extension period as can be confirmed by the hurried and hasty introduction of the new ZIM $50 mil note last night.

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2. Violence and retribution against the Opposition members shall rise to UNPRECENDENTED LEVELS resulting in a blood-path that Bob desperately wants as can be confirmed by statements coming from the Security Top Brass and War Veterans.

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3. If Bob does not concede defeat soon after the results and decides not only to fight to the bitter end but to extend the re-run date: decisions expected to be made at today’s Politburo Meeting….then its time to raise ALL the Alarm bells!!!

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(SENT BY 5 SMS’s AT 03.00 AM THIS MORNING 4th APRIL, 2008 BY SOMEONE IN HARARE WHO REQUESTED ANONYMITY!)

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...they WILL salute.........YES, they WILL!

....the harder they fall!

32vegas

SA AND ZIM POLITICS: THE UNDER-CURRENTS!

.......The Zimbabwean story is rife with truths, half-truths and out-right lies and the tragedy is that the common voter will go into the Polling booth clouded with a mixture of the said truths, half-truths and outright lies..........

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"Time for cool heads to prevail in Zimbabwe" by Tanonoka Joseph Whande

PERSECUTION, violence, pestilence, corruption, plague, economic breakdown and death of all kinds and causes - yes, you find all that in Zimbabwe today. And you also find it in Chapter 6 of the Book of Revelation.

While I grapple with trying to understand it, the little that I comprehend leaves me immobilized, frightened and utterly defeated.

The recent developments in Zimbabwe generally and on the political landscape have raised a lot of moral , ethical,and ideological challenges for me and I guess many others like me. First there is the issue of Simba(which in Zulu means trash and in Kiswahili LION......how ironic?).

Indeed there are many who would happily go along with the Zulu meaning of the man's name and yet many others who would rather believe that the LION that will defeat Bona's son has finally come out of hiding? As we oft said in the years past , IMF....(meaning It is Mugabe's Fault).PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE!!!!!

WHITHER SOUTH AFRICA???

DEMO>>>>ZIMBABWEAN EMBASSY, PRETORIA>>> 21ST FEBRUARY, 2008.

PLEASE KINDLY NOTE THAT THE ZIMBABWE REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH MOVEMENT WILL HOLD A DEMO AT THE ZIMBABWEAN EMBASSY, PRETORIA ON THURSDAY, 21ST FEBRUARY, 2008 AT 10.00AM TO 12.00 NOON.

REV HOVE BLASTS GREEDY VULTURES IN THE OPPOSITION FORCES!

I'm in a precarious situation where every word I issue is analysed etc....I mean by the real political players.

I could give more details but not just now.My only worry is that certain among us are well-off and can look after their various relatives and can afford to watch the crisis deteriorating for another year.

PLEASE ADD TO COMMENTS ABOUT DR S MAKONI'S ENTRY INTO POLITICS!!!

The last 8 years have failed to produce the kind of change that the country required to lift it up instead the political and economic crisis has worsened.

It is generally agreed that the political stalemate of the last 8 years is a reflection of a leadership deficit that is characteristic of many post colonial states in which fear is the optimal currency used to regulate and manage political behaviour under the guise of consensus and nation building.

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"Why Tsvangirai and Mutambara must make way for Makoni" by Innocent Chofamba Sithole

FOLLOWING Simba Makoni’s decision to run for President on March 29, the time may be ripe for opposition faction leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara to pack in and run for parliament instead.

Mutambara acknowledges his limits in the presidential race at the present moment and regards himself really as a future president. This is why, in my opinion, he has been ready at various times in the unity discussions between the two MDC factions to play second fiddle to Morgan.

Is the MDC justified in calling for violence if ZANU-PF (as usual) rigs the 2008 Elections?

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No 42>>MDC TO RESORT TO KENYA-STYLE VIOLENCE IF ZANU RIGS THE ELECTIONS!

HARARE -- Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Saturday vowed a repeat of Kenya's recent election violence if veteran President Robert Mugabe rigs joint presidential and legislative polls due in March.

"You saw and heard what happened in Kenya. It's nothing compared to what we will have here if Mugabe rigs the elections again," said the Movement for Democratic Change's secretary for information, Nelson Chamisa.

"Hello! This is the Zimbabwean Embassy!"

Excesses of Indigenisation- a threat to the African brand!" Hillary Kundishora!

"The construct of the indigenisation law is a paradox to the broader aspirations of the independence and it is now certain that the excesses of Zimbabwe's economic rights movement have conceived anarchism in place of a safe,secure, free and liberated Zimbabwe."

I'm sure there is no doubt that blogging is recognized world-wide as a very effective means of communication. How blogging started and who offer the facilities for blogging and what they themselves benefit from it is not the subject of my submission.

I do not know the full picture and I may never know. Perhaps, I do not even need to know.

DR SIMBA MAKONI ON "SWRADIOAFRICA" WITH VIOLET GONDA!

DR NKOSANA MOYO'S PRO MAKONI SPEECH!!! PLEASE PASS ON TO ALL!!!

Tererai presents a speech by Nkosana Moyo, business leader and the campaign manager for Simba Makoni. Moyo was at the School Of African And Oriental Studies in London this past weekend, where he addressed Zimbabweans in the UK about Makoni’s decision to run for president.

Moyo also talked about the important role that Zimbabweans in the diaspora can play in the future of their country. The event was organized by the Zimbabwe Diaspora Forum and was the first in a series they are planning for the future.

"DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT" by activist Luke Zunga!!!

"We Zimbabweans could be fooling ourselves into a dream of a prosperous free democratic Zimbabwe after Mugabe is gone.- that is if he goes at all. The hard fact is that democracy, while a necessary step, will not deliver development or prosperity. Haiti is good example, of black slaves still struggling 200 years after freeing themselves......."

OPEN LETTER TO MR DAVID COLTART!

".........Zimbabweans we don't trust Arthur Mutambara and your Secretary General Welshman Ncube. Ncube is already in possession of a commercial farm he was given by ZANU PF. Before he was criticizing ZANU PF leaders' behavior over White owned farms.

Personallly l believe Simba Makoni you are supporting is being used by ZANU PF to divide votes between Tsvangirai MDC and ZANU PF. The same thing that a ZANU PF official Edgar Tekere did in the 1990s. People don't see any accountability and transparent in your MDC faction.

"Re-Branding Zimbabwe: A Vision For Global Competitiveness" by Hillary Kundishora!

"Makoni hijacking struggle" : Madhuku

THE emergence of the Simba Makoni “initiative/project” has raised justifiable questions about the direction of the continuing quest by Zimbabweans to end the dictatorship of the ZANU-PF regime and usher in a genuinely democratic dispensation. One such question is: how should civic society relate to the initiative?

More fundamentally, should it be the business of civic society organisations to pronounce their preferences among contesting presidential aspirants? I have decided to take a few hours from my activist work and put pen to paper to address some of the pertinent issues arising from the Makoni “initiative/project”.

COSATU TO LEAD DEMOS AGAINST ZIM AND SWAZI OPPRESSIVE REGIMES!!

No one can claim not to know, by now, that SADC is facing a serious problem, arising from the political and socio-economic crisis facingthe twin-sister countries of Zimbabwe and Swaziland. These countries area menace to the spreading trend towards democracy in Africa.

The world has at best lamented and at worst collaborated with the aggressor regimes of the two countries: the Mugabe and Mswati oppressors.

This is why the new initiative, called the South African International Solidarity Front, currently convened by COSATU hastaken the bold initiative to confront these two countries and demandjustice for the sister peoples of these countries.

Terrorism, Brutalities and Starvation ahead of March 2008, Presidential elections in Zimbabwe

The fact that Zimbabwe is at war cannot be disputed with success. It is difficult at times for outsiders to understand the nature of this war.The ruling ZANU PF government has lost all popularity in all sectors of the population and does not want to relinquish power. ZANU PF is clinging on power at all cost - even if it means murdering and starving all dissenters.

Thousands of Zimbabwe opposition women have been raped, or abused or beaten by police or government sponsored partisans. In march 2002 when I made gestures against corruption, state terrorism and refused to attend ZANU PF meetings (compulsory for all) my homestead was raided over night by State militias and the so-called War Veterans.

Simon Khaya-Moyo feels the heat : Ambassador protests at protests!!!

"Media Freedom: A Vision For Prosperity" by Hillary Kundishora

The electronic and print in other value driven and politically mature societies, has acted as the free marketplace of ideas, and as such there is a direct and general causal link between economic prosperity and media freedom with the exception of China, but nevertheless the success story of China does not mean to undermine the causal link prevalent in much of the third and first word nations.

The existence of this unique relationship consequently raises an important thesis about economic development and it elucidates a secret for development, which has been the magic for economic prosperity in first world economies.

"The 29th Of March 2008 Elections: A Vision For Prosperity" by Hillary Kundishora

Economic prosperity has been a contentious and elusive issue for in particular black people in much of postcolonial Africa, the emerging nationalist leaders peddled a doctrine that poverty was an invention of the colonial establishment and as such the revolution needed to assert even outdated sovereignty while pleading to patriotic inspired sentiments at all costs.

DR SIMBA MAKONI ON THE BBC!! PLEASE CLICK AND LISTEN WITH AN OPEN HEART AND MIND!!!

SIMON KHAYA-MOYO CORNERED...DEMO ON 28/02/2008!!

The police were threatening them that if they refuse to accept the petition, the police will also refuse to provide them with security and they will leave us doing the demos at the Embassy on our own.It was a big and well attended meeting with all the Chief of Police of Gauteng and the UN officials

Demos at various points in the world>>>Please listen to Prof Stanford Mukasa's Appeal!

MDC CHIEF ROY BENNETT SLAMS SIMBA MAKONI!!

The time for opportunism is not now. The MDC and their people have suffered the brunt of the same regime that through a “defend power” project of which Makoni was part of, have made the environment ripe for the pickings, as every man and his dog wants change.

If there is one thing that has always irked me, it is the Zimbabwean people's penchant to inflict political wounds and paralysing handicaps on ourselves.

From soccer administration to running trade union affiliates, we have this propensity to regurgitate and recycle proven failures. Nothing illustrates this more than soccer administration in Zimbabwe . The same old failures are always brought back to run clubs and to administer soccer in the country.

MR LUKE D ZUNGA PLEADS FOR PRACTICAL AID TO RESUSCITATE ZIMBABWE!!!

People of Zimbabwe, both those who support and those against the current systems, are biting their own ineptitude. The educated elite failed to effect change and appear to be making critique of those who are trying.

Most of those residing in the Diaspora are keeping to themselves with their families to enjoy the space. Instead of being a tactful retreat, most have become docile, preferring to cross into Zimbabwe in pomp, with a show of goodies to their destitute family members. Some don’t even want to be known as Zimbabweans.

"SIMBA MAKONI FACES MAMMOTH TASK" OBSERVES GARIKAYI CHIMUKA!!

The welcome entry of Dr Makoni into the political fray has generated intense mixed reactions. To some it has generated extraordinary excitement whereas to others it has meant skepticism.

I personally believe that Dr Makoni faces a mammoth task if the Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn project is to succeed. Politics is a game of strategy, structures and timing and Dr Makoni can still win it if he can craft the formula right but at the same time he can be buried for good if he miscalculates his move.

Like what Obama always say, a struggle against vested interests will not be easy .It will need a lot of ingenuity and several options and alternatives to build and sustain the momentum.

It is in this context that I honestly believe that Makoni faces a tough task. Will he be equal to the task? What strategies can he employ to victory?FOR MORE PLEASE CLICK HERE!!!

TSVANGIRAI BLASTS MAKONI AT PRESS CONFERENCE!

MDC president Morgan Tsvangirai was in South Africa Wednesday where he addressed international correspondents about recent events regarding the March 29th elections.

Tsvangirai revealed that on February 23rd the MDC would unveil their election manifesto and the party’s plans to reverse Zimbabwe’s decline, which he said was a product of ZANU PF misrule in the last thirty years.PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE!!!

MDC PRESIDENT TSVANGIRAI ROBBED IN JOBURG!

FOR THIS AND OTHER DEMOS, PLEASE CLICK BELOW!

BRIAN KAGORO ON SIMBA MAKONI!

Well , Fellow Citizens, Africans and Zimbabweans!

The business of reconstructing an economy already in tatters ; public institutions in severe dilapidation and public confidence in crisis will -of necessity- be excruciatingly painful. It has to be inclusive of friends and foes alike; of ideological allies and opponnents ;of revolutionaries and quislings alike.

The challenge of leadership at this great hour is that ability to accept the pain and discomfort of an inclussive politics.

BRIAN KAGORO WELCOMES MAKONI'S ENTRY!!! PLEASE CLICK AND LISTEN!!!

A FACTION of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has left the door open for an electoral pact with Zanu PF rebel, Simba Makoni, in a move likely to bolster the former finance minister’s challenge to President Robert Mugabe in presidential elections due on March 29.

"ZIMFINALPUSH" HAS 35 (THIRTY-FIVE) DIFFERENT SITES!

Rev Hove looks at the Zim Leadership Question!

The entering of the Presidential race by Dr Simba Makoni has generated a great deal of excitement. The equation is now more complex and whether you like it or not, the debate has been made wider. Certain factors still remain eg the rigging, the State-Sponsored Violence, the Propaganda and the related ZANU-PF mischief.

The only difference is that Mugabe has a wider sphere to charge at and a greater battle to fight.The people of Zimbabwe have a greater puzzle to solve and the analysts are now more confused than ever.

Is Simba Makoni genuinely against ZANU-PF? What exactly is he against? What does he continue to support? Why does he not come out clearly and either start a new Movement or immediately join the existing Formations?

"Jonathan Moyo has a right to take part in any initiative" says Qhopheni Ndlovu

This is in reply to Masola Wadabudabu's article on Jonathan Moyo's eligibility to take part in a coalilation. Jonathan Moyo should be involved in any initiative aimed at bettering the life of Zimbabweans and the economic situation in the country.

He has the right to involved in any coalation as long as he is willing and can contribute positively. Its true that there were a lot of changes that he brought during his time as the Minister of Information.

"MDCs PLEASE JOIN MAKONI" PLEADS TEKERE!!!

Edgar Tekere, a Zanu-PF founding member and the organisation’s secretary general until his expulsion in 1989, yesterday appealed to the Movement for Democratic Change parties to set their differences aside and rally behind Dr Simba Makoni’s bid to unseat President Robert Mugabe.

Makoni, a Zanu-PF politburo member until his dismissal from the party yesterday, announced this week that he will challenge Mugabe in next month's presidential election.FOR MORE PLEASE CLICK HERE!!!

HIS EXCELLENCY???

"SIMBA MAKONI - A PROGRESSIVE FORCE" MUSEKIWA MAKWANYA

For the past 8 years Mugabe has wailed that the Britons are responsible for the ills that have befallen Zimbabwe, in turn Morgan has blamed Mugabe.What is the point is that Mugabe as the incumbent leader has failed to protect his country against foreign forces hence he is useless as a leader.

Morgan has failed to oust Bob hence the need to try a new strategy with different people.It is time for both to get out and leave the political scene. They are both not presidential material.

PERSISTENT PERSECUTION OF THE CHURCH CONTINUES IN ZIMBABWE !!!!!

The ZANU PF government continue to persecute the Church of God. Eight Church leaders, including a blind pastor were arrested during a meeting in front of 400 worshippers and detained in police cells in Kadoma (120 km South West of Harare).

"ELECTION BOYCOTT SELF-DEFEATING!" WARNS GARIKAI CHIMUKA

Those who are campaigning for a boycott choose not to tell people that if the MDC boycotts the elections, other smaller parties funded by the regime will mushroom and contest giving Mugabe some modicum of legitimacy.Moreso, within the MDC itself, there are some politicians who believe strongly in participating.